| The Davistown Museum |
| Center for the Study of Early Tools |
| Scattered throughout The Davistown Museum are tools by important manufacturers who are also the subject of |
| information files compiled by the museum. This is a listing of our holdings for: |
| Levi Tinkham Collection |
| | Status | Location |
| Ephemera and Documents |
| Documents |
| 30701E3 | Debtor summons to John Tinkum | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 8" wide, 9" high, . |
| 30701E2 | Deed | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 7 1/2" wide, 7 1/2" high, , March 31, 1714. |
| John Tinkcom. |
| 30701E1 | Deed | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 7 1/2" wide, 8 1/2" high, , March 24, 1710. |
| John Tinkcom, Dartmouth, Mass. |
| AHCE14 | Ephraim Timrom deed | bio | LPC | MH |
| handwritten deed, includes signature of William Bradford Jr., dated 1691. |
| 30701E4 | Estate inventory | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 7" wide, 11 3/4" high, , May 6, 1794. |
| John Tinkham, Administrator for the estate of Abagail Tinkham. |
| Historic Maritime II (1720-1800): The Second Colonial Dominion & the Early Republic |
| Woodworking: Planes |
| 33013T3 | Angled molding or jointing plane | bio | LPC | MH |
| Wood (beech), cast steel, 8 3/8" long, 3 3/4" and 2 3/4" wide sides, signed "L TINKHAM" "C C GRIFFITH" "F.C.S". |
| This unusual triangular plane cuts a curved profile. It came from the Watts boat shop and might have a function in making edges of hull |
| planks join together in such a way that they don't come apart when the wood expands and contracts. |
| 4613T1 | Panel raising plane | bio | DTM | MH |
| Wood (rosewood), cast steel, 14" long, 2 1/4" wide, 6 1/2" tall, signed "C.C. GRIFFITH" "L*T; E*CLARK MIDDLEBORO" and "BENNET" |
| on blade. |
| The L*T signature is probably Levi Tinkham. E. Clark is Elisha Clark. The Bennet mark is probably N. Bennet, a smith in Middleboro, MA. |
| Pollack (2001) notes some connection between Clark and Tinkham; the DATM (Nelson 1999) notes that Bennett is known to have made irons |
| for Clark. |
| 33013T2 | Sliding fence plow plane | bio | LPC | MH |
| Wood (beech), cast steel, 9 3/4" long, 9" tall, 7 1/2" wide, signed "L. TINKHAM" "C.C. GRIFFITH" "F C S". |
| 51213T1 | Wheelwrights' outside compass plane | bio | LPC | MH |
| Wood (beech), cast steel, 7 1/2" long, 2 5/8" wide, 2" wide blade, signed "NEWBOULD" on blade "L TINKHAM" "C C GRIFFITH CCG" on |
| body. |
| The blade was probably made by Thomas Newbould or Samuel Newbould and Co. of Sheffield, England |
| (http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Samuel_Newbould_and_Co). |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Shipwrights', Sailmakers', and Mariners' Tools |
| TCC2005 | Shipwrights' slick | bio | photo | LPC | MH |
| Cast steel with wood handle, 14 1/2" long, 3 1/2" wide, 10" handle, signed "WARRANTED CAST STEEL" and "_. TINKHAM". |
| Other than "warranted cast steel," this tool has no manufacturer's touch mark. The slick has an owner's sign (?) "Tinkham" and is part of our |
| collection of Tinkham artifacts and papers that are on display in the Museum. This slick came from a ship carpenters' tool box discovered in |
| Foxboro, MA, several years ago and was undoubtedly used by one of the Tinkham clan, probably in the shipyards of New Bedford, Fairhaven, |
| or Mattapoisset, MA. C. 1810 - 1850. This slick is similar to signed specimens produced by the prolific Underhill clan of Nashua, NH. |
| Woodworking: Planes |
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